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...they feel that British propaganda is not just another name for Empire publicity. It is a force dark, sinister, pervasive, ineluctable. Its strength lies in the fascination which the British upper classes exert upon the U. S. upper classes. As proof they submit a somewhat original interpretation of Anglo-American relations before 1917. During World War I, they claim, there was a deep cleavage in U. S. sentiment: "To upper-class America, the Allies truly represented civilization, for England's culture was their culture too." So the upper classes foisted World War I on the rest...
...group of American ex-servicemen organized the American Volunteer Ambulance Corps, collected funds in France and the U. S., enrolled such eminent supporters as Ambassador William Bullitt, General John J. Pershing, Author Louis Bromfield, Banker Frank A. Vanderlip Jr., Mrs. Seton Porter. All told A. V. A. C. had 75 men, 66 Chevrolets at the front last week, including one donated by the New York Stock Exchange, another by the Broadway cast of Life With Father. Forty-four more A. V. A. C. ambulances are in France, will soon go into action. Third such unit was the Anglo-American Ambulance...
...Churchill. The note: "You can show it to Winston if you like." The rhyme: "My U-boats are under the ocean, My Graf Spee is under the sea, My Hitler is in a commotion, Oh don't mention Winston to me." Proud Papa Shakespeare read it at an Anglo-American Community Chest luncheon Representative Charles Albert Plumley of Vermont told the House of Representatives that he was "astounded" when he saw a picture in LIFE of Admiral James Otto Richardson, Commander in Chief of the U. S. Fleet, with an autographed photograph of King George VI at his elbow...
...Churchill. The note: "You can show it to Winston if you like." The rhyme: "My U-boats are under the ocean, My Graf Spee is under the sea, My Hitler is in a commotion, Oh don't mention Winston to me." Proud Papa Shakespeare read it at an Anglo-American Community Chest luncheon...
...five of the 15 deal with various aspects of education, by means of which Professor Hogben is sure that civilization could be saved-or for the first time created. "If European civilization does not use science to rid itself of [war, poverty and disease], war will probably destroy our Anglo-American civilization. . . irreparably...